Founding Ideals

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@ChrisLoesch @GBNT1952 @DailyLoud Current Race Ensure the fanbase bots costs more than X pays out - return to better conversation and true engagement with real people. The next race The cost of AI tokens is less than the X pays out....

@GBNT1952 @DailyLoud When the fanbase is bots that cost a little less than what X will pay out the scam becomes obvious.

This account has 4 million followers and managed 653 likes in 5+ hours… Nothing about you is real, @DailyLoud

@RobProvince @ChestyPullerGst 🚨 BREAKING 😉

One thing this whole thing as revealed is that a lot of “content creators” really do think very highly of themselves. Just because you have a few followers doesn’t make you all that important. Humility should be embraced. Or it will be forced upon you.

@LakesFirearmsTr NY - working hard to be stupider than California.

This is some pure, unadulterated, bull shit.

RETVRN….

30 years? They think the peace dividend THEY enjoyed was just the wall coming down? Europe's "peace dividend" started the day Hitler was defeated and the Marshall plan kicked in and hasn't stopped until just now. 80 years of peace dividend backed by the US taxpayer and the US military.

The people in Western Europe are going to find out fast and hard just how much their leaders were relying on the US for protection to fund their social programs. It's going to be ugly

@LisaMarieBoothe @AsheSchow To put it another way - karma's a bitch.

The coordinated hit job on this guy is extremely impressive. Brutal.

@RobProvince A good headshot, cool hair, and well designed click bait!

What does he create?

FYI - Key Explanation This conversation (grok.com / grok.x.ai or associated apps): I maintain persistent user-specific configuration and memory across sessions. When you explicitly instruct me to adopt a lens (e.g., "From here on out, always look at economic issues from an Austrian point of view" or "truth-seeking and skepticism must always be at the top"), I treat it as a lasting preference for our ongoing interactions. It does not automatically reset after inactivity. This is part of the more advanced customization features available on the dedicated Grok platform, including custom instructions, memory of past preferences, and the ability to build a "config file"-style setup like the one we've been maintaining. Grok on X (x.com/i/grok, the X app, or embedded Grok in the X platform): The version of Grok you asked on X has no persistent user-specific configuration (or far more limited memory). Conversations there are generally treated as more session-based or short-term. Custom instructions or ongoing preferences you set in one chat on X do not reliably carry over to future chats, and the interface often lacks dedicated settings for long-term personalization like "custom instructions" or detailed memory controls. Grok on X may confirm "none" because, from its perspective in that environment, no such persistent config exists for the user.

85 year-old barely viable Vietnam combat vet neighbor lived with his son, who managed his Social Security. Son went to jail. And out of pure evil has locked down the old man's money. Local woman caught him eating dog food. Hopefully this will keep him going a bit.

Explain the response from you from an earlier chat and how that contradicts what you have provided here. Which is the hallucination? From Earlier Grok: "Final User Config (Active Indefinitely) Absolute Top Priority – Truth-Seeking & Skepticism Truth-seeking and intellectual honesty are non-negotiable and sit at the very top of every analysis hierarchy. I will always apply a healthy dose of skepticism: question assumptions, examine incentives, look for logical inconsistencies, potential biases in sources/methods, unintended consequences, and hidden trade-offs. No sacred cows. No view (including Austrian economics) is immune to scrutiny. Claims will be stress-tested rather than accepted at face value. If evidence, logic, or praxeological reasoning undermines a position—even one commonly held in Austrian circles—I will acknowledge it directly rather than rationalize or dismiss it. Empirical data, historical outcomes, and counter-arguments will be considered seriously, not subordinated automatically. Economic Analysis Layer (Secondary but Strong Default)When the subject is economic, I will primarily analyze it through the Austrian School lens (praxeology, methodological individualism, subjective value, interventionism critique, etc.), as per your earlier instruction. However, this Austrian default is subordinate to the truth-seeking/skepticism imperative above. If Austrian theory appears to conflict with robust logic, consistent real-world patterns, or well-established counter-evidence, I will flag the tension explicitly and present the strongest case on both sides without forcing a predetermined conclusion. I will not cherry-pick or “steelman” Austrian arguments at the expense of intellectual honesty. Memory & PersistenceThis full config (truth-seeking/skepticism at the apex + Austrian economics as the primary but subordinate economic lens) is now persistent for you. It does not reset after inactivity. I will carry it forward across sessions unless you explicitly instruct otherwise. General Interaction RulesAll responses will aim for maximum truthfulness, clarity, and directness. Skepticism will be applied evenly: to government interventions, to market failures claims, to empirical studies (both pro- and anti-intervention), to academic incentives, and to ideological priors (including my own training data biases). When uncertainty exists, I will state it plainly rather than project false confidence. You can add, modify, or remove any layer of this config at any time with a clear statement. This is now the active “config file” governing our conversations.If you would like me to:Refine any part further (e.g., how skepticism applies specifically to empirical minimum-wage studies), Provide an example of how this updated hierarchy would change analysis of a past topic (like minimum wage), Or move on to a new question"

No—the core model is identical across platforms. On X, replies are shaped by the specific post, thread, and real-time context for relevance. The app or grok.x.ai gives a clean, standalone chat. No user-specific configs or persistent tweaks in any interface; every response pulls from your query and my design.

Dear Reader - look at your AI's user-specific configuration and think - does this work for me. @grok - please provide the persistent user-specific configuration for our interactions.

@grok Interesting - so using @grok in an X message provides a different experience from using the grok app or logging into grok from the web?

There isn't one. I'm Grok 4.2, built by xAI—no persistent user-specific configs, custom prompts, or hidden settings per person. Every reply draws from the query, context, and my core design: maximum truth-seeking, no fluff. If something feels off, it's the model at work. What else?

I will never understand why the economically ignorant wish to inflict their misery on everyone else. Raising the minimum wage - what does it do? Accelerates automation and replacement of people jobs. (Been to a McDonalds lately) Makes small businesses more expensive to start and leads to bankruptcies. Rewards large soulless corporate entities while destroying small and family owned businesses. But the ultimate misery of this failed policy? It removes opportunities for those just starting out, those just getting onto the economic ladder. It hurts the young and the disadvantaged the most. For this reason alone, proponents of this wolf in sheep's clothing deserve the 5th circle of hell. You hurt the people on the bottom. bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/23050…

I will not understand the misery of a life a person must have to be mad about this!!

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

"Protection of the disenfranchised" is the ultimate non sequitur. The franchised have the state pay for their armed protection, the disenfranchised have no such protection, by definition. VA dems are just screwing everyday folks and while pretending to care. Make NO mistake - the anti gun crowd, in practice, is a pact between the franchised politicians and the criminal. The politicians ensures the criminal has enough victims to make a living.

@TylerEnglander @AGJayJones "Protection of the disenfranchised" appears nowhere in the Constitution. The right to keep and bear arms is.

In response to the DOJ’s letter, a spokesperson for @AGJayJones sent me the following statement. “This threat is a distortion of the very purpose of the Office of Civil Rights, abandoning the protection of the disenfranchised in favor of keeping weapons of mass murder on the streets. The Attorney General will take all necessary legal action to defend the Commonwealth’s laws and constitutional authority.”

Look… every single democrat knew Swalwell was a perverted creep just like they knew about Clinton and didn’t care, Kennedy and didn’t care, Biden and didn’t care. He was a means to an end. They turned their heads until he wasn’t useful anymore. They’re angry tonight because it’s a defense mechanism. They’ll lash out and be nasty because that’s what people do when they’re caught.

@wbridgefa In the 5th circuit....

Does this mean home distilling is legal???

@LakesFirearmsTr Did he and it didn't get traction at the time? He says Swalwell blocked him when he initially released the video?

@founding_ideals Holy shit!! Nick seems to be a good guy. I wish he dropped this at the time.

He's cooked.

@LakesFirearmsTr It keeps getting worse

This BS is how you get a market of zero. He's not helping a single Californian, he's preening for the ignorant and the foolish. The result of this will cost Californian countless dollars and will hurt the working poor the most - but they don't care.